In the former half of October, meetings
were held across the country to inform general public of the criminal complaint
that accuses of TEPCO executives and experts of Nuclear Safety Commission
regarding the March 2011 meltdown disaster of Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power
Plant. Residents of Fukushima organized a group in March this year and 1.324 of
them filed a criminal complaint with
Fukushima District Public Prosecutor's Office on 11 June. The complaint was
accepted on 1 August. Investigation is expected to start soon. In order to
press the case strongly, the accusers have been calling for participation of a
greater number of people since August. In the meeting that was held in Kameido,
Tokyo, on 6 October, the leading accuser MUTO Ruiko spoke to the participants.
"With the accident occurred in Chernobyl in 1986, we learnt that an accident
at a nuclear power plant would be a catastrophe. Spent nuclear fuels and the
enormous amount of radioactive waste that was brought about as a result of the
disaster at Fukushima No.1 plant have been imposed upon younger generations. We
want to examine thoroughly what our society and the government have been doing
with the atomic energy and find out what went wrong. This is why we decided to
file a criminal complaint. And we want to do so together with many people. All
the residents in Japan have been affected
by the disaster in Fukushima. We urge you to regard the issue as your own and
join the legal case." (By OZAWA Kuniko)
福島原発事故の責任をただす!~「福島原発告訴団」説明会
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